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Correct heading drift on base leg promptly with small bank adjustments to re-establish the extended centreline track.
What happened: The heading on base leg drifted 6.2° off the runway track.
Watch for: Heading indicator against runway track, holding it steady through base leg.
See Pattern Base Leg
Bank angle in the pattern is conventionally kept to 20 to 30 degrees, and the base-to-final turn is where that convention earns its keep. Stall speed rises with bank because the wing must produce more lift in a turn. Roughly 7 per cent higher at 30 degrees, about 19 per cent at 45, and around 40 per cent at 60. At 65 kt on base you don't have much margin to spend steepening a turn to salvage an overshoot.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply. These checks are the approach's score.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,866 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 256 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Commander 114 taxied from the parking area to runway 23 at EGPE Inverness Airport in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm on the ground.
During the departure roll on runway 23, the aircraft accelerated through a takeoff distance of 375 m, representing 20 % of the runway, and lifted off at a speed of 78 kt; ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, giving a crosswind component of 1 kt and a headwind component of 2 kt.
The aircraft entered the left-hand pattern from runway 23, flying a distance of 1 nm in 22 seconds.
Continuing the left-hand pattern, the crosswind leg spanned less than 1 nm and was completed in 25 seconds.
On the downwind turn, the aircraft described a 2 nm arc with an angle to the runway of 47.2 °.
The downwind leg extended for 3 nm and was flown in 89 seconds.
During the base-leg turn, the aircraft covered 2 nm while turning to an angle of 55.3 ° relative to the runway.
The base leg itself was 1 nm long and was completed in 53 seconds.
The final turn to align with the runway was less than 1 nm and required 22 seconds.
On final approach to runway 23, the aircraft descended from 444 ft agl to 42 ft agl in 52 seconds and met the stabilisation gates criteria.
Touchdown occurred on runway 23, whose length is 1,866 m; the threshold speed was 70 kt, the touchdown distance was 255 m, the touchdown speed was 58 kt, and the vertical speed was minus 94 fpm, with perfect runway alignment; the same weather conditions as departure applied.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 467 m, equivalent to 25 % of the runway, and the aircraft maintained perfect alignment throughout the rollout.
In total, the flight covered 10 nm, required 8 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 3 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 23 at EGPE Inverness Airport descended from 444 ft agl to 42 ft agl in 52 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates.
At threshold the height was reported as good and the threshold speed was good at 70 kt.
Touchdown occurred 255 m down the runway at a speed of 58 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 94 fpm and runway touchdown alignment perfect.
The aircraft rolled out over a total landing distance of 467 m, representing 25 % of the 1 866 m runway, and runway rollout alignment was perfect.
Maintain the current high standards while fine-tuning the touchdown point to sit nearer the 300 m aim point and monitor rollout distance to keep the margin comfortably within runway limits.
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